Augusten Burroughs Running With Scissors

Augusten Burroughs Running With Scissors. Running with Scissors by Augusten, Burroughs (Paperback, 2006) 9780733620522 eBay Publication date 2002 Topics Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth, Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts. Family settles with "Running with Scissors" author, publisher By Rodrique Ngowi, Associated Press Writer | August 29, 2007 BOSTON --A family that claimed author Augusten Burroughs defamed them in his best-selling book "Running with Scissors" has settled a lawsuit against the author and his publisher, their attorney said Wednesday.

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed.

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

The book opens in 1976, when Augusten Burroughs is 11, by describing—from Augusten's point of view—his deep childhood. And in turn, his brother and his mother published their own accounts of the family saga Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs was first published in 2002 as a memoir

Running with Scissors by Augusten, Burroughs (Paperback, 2006) 9780733620522 eBay. The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture! Running with Scissors is a 2002 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs.The book tells the story of Burroughs's bizarre childhood life after his mother, a chain-smoking aspiring poet, sent him to live with her psychiatrist

Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs Macmillan. Running with scissors : a memoir by Burroughs, Augusten Publication date 2002 Topics Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth, Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts.